SAP China Aims to Launch Three Cloud-based Solutions with Alibaba Cloud by the End of 2016

Hong Kong, August 24,
2016 – SAP China and Alibaba Cloud today
announced plans to make three SAP cloud-based solutions available to China
customers by the end of this year. These cloud-based solutions are SAP Hybris
Cloud for Customer, SAP HANA Cloud Platform and SAP Business ByDesign. The move
aims to deliver more comprehensive cloud products and services to Chinese
enterprises and help them drive digital transformation. The announcement was
made at the SAP Select held in Beijing today.

“The cloud business is a key
part of SAP’s digital framework and one of the driving forces behind our rapid
business growth in China.” said Mark Gibbs, SAP Global Senior Vice President
and President of SAP Greater China. “The three cloud-based solutions that we are
about to launch with Alibaba Cloud will further expand SAP’s
cloud footprint in China, and meet the needs of more Chinese enterprises. It
will help Chinese companies to effectively embrace the opportunities brought by
digital transformation.”

“Cloud computing has
become the new infrastructure for businesses around the world,” said Simon HU,
President of Alibaba Cloud. “Through in-depth collaboration, Alibaba Cloud and
SAP will join hands to bring more world-class cloud products with highly reliable
and strong capabilities to companies in different industries.”

The three SAP cloud products that will land with Alibaba
Cloud by the end of the year include:

·           SAP
Hybris Cloud for Customer: A cloud-based SaaS
CRM solution that seamlessly integrates marketing, sales, commerce, customer
service and social CRM, and redefines customer engagement by providing rich and
predictive insights, perfect execution and a contextual customer experience.

·           SAP
HANA Cloud Platform: An open
platform-as-a-service that provides unique in-memory database and application
services. It is the proven cloud platform that enables the rapid development of
new applications or the ability to extend existing ones. It helps business users and developers create better, more agile
and mobile-ready applications, and integrate 3rd party solutions.

·           SAP
Business ByDesign: Complete and
integrated cloud suite for medium-sized enterprises that can run an entire
company from a single solution that supports a wide range of business scenarios,
and enables enterprises to allocate resources and respond to requests in the
moment by maximizing IT simplification and optimizing integration of business
processes.

SAP is one of the
global leading cloud providers with the largest cloud portfolio. SAP cloud
business achieved triple-digit growth for the first half of 2016 in Greater
China region, as more and more customers are adopting SAP cloud products to
obtain insights, make decisions in the moment, and maximize business processes
as well as the customer experience.